Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke of Te Pāti Māori stood and began a rhythmic Māori chant of challenge, which swelled to a roar as ...

Controversial legislation revises the 184-year-old Treaty of Waitangi granting Maori tribes land rights. Thousands of people have joined a nine-day march towards New Zealand’s capital over a ...

New Zealand’s parliament was briefly suspended on Thursday after Maori members staged a haka to disrupt the vote on a ...

Act, the political party that introduced the bill, argues there is a need to legally define the principles of the 1840 Treaty ...

A protest at Te Papa Museum last year involved spray paint and the defacement of text using an angle grinder on the Treaty of ...

Opposition lawmakers performed the traditional dance during a reading of a bill that would redefine the country’s founding treaty with its Indigenous people.

Timed to coincide with the first reading of the contentious Principles of the Treaty of Waitangi Bill yesterday — it passed ...

In a dramatic showdown, New Zealand's parliament saw a vote suspended and two lawmakers ejected as tensions flared over a ...

In a dramatic display of protest, New Zealand MPs performed the traditional Maori haka in Parliament, halting proceedings ...

Māori politicians are protesting against a bill that could change New Zealand's founding treaty with the Indigenous people.

The Treaty Principles Bill will face its first vote on Thursday afternoon in what is expected to be a heated session in ...